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This book chronicles the tragic, torn lives of a poor black family in 1940s Ohio: Pauline, Cholly, Sam and Pecola.…
Pecola, unlovely and unloved, prays each night for blue eyes like those of her privileged white schoolfellows. She becomes the focus of the mingled love and hatred engendered by her family's frailty and the world's cruelty. 1994.
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Family stories, General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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Into a white millionaire's Caribbean mansion come Jadine - graduate of the Sorbonne, art historian, an American black now living…
in Paris and Rome - and Son, a criminal on the run, uneducated, violent, contemptuous, an American black from small-town Florida. Son is a threat to her freedom; she is a threat to his identity. Strong language. 1983.
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In 1976, nine men from the all-black community of Ruby, Oklahoma attack a former convent on the edge of town,…
which is the refuge of four female outcasts. Various tragedies that have struck the townspeople motivate the assault, which is intended to purge and protect the community. But it also reveals dark secrets leading back to the town's origins in the 1890's. Bestseller. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language. 1998.
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Lula Ann Bridewell, fille de "mulâtres au teint blond", est si noire de peau à la naissance que sa mère,…
Sweetness, n'éprouve pour elle que du dégoût. Son père, ne la croyant pas de lui, quitte le domicile conjugal. Sweetness ("Douceur") élève durement - et sans jamais cacher sa répugnance - la fillette, prête à tout pour que sa mère daigne la toucher. C'est seulement quand Lula Ann fait un faux témoignage contre une institutrice accusée de pédophilie que Sweetness, fière qu'elle ait contribué à faire incarcérer une Blanche, lui prend la main. L'accusée est condamnée à vingt-cinq ans de prison. 2015.
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A searing tale about the way childhood trauma shapes and misshapes the life of the adult. At the centre: a…
woman who calls herself Bride, whose stunning blue-black skin is only one element of her beauty, her boldness and confidence, her success in life; but which caused her light-skinned mother to deny her even the simplest forms of love until she told a lie that ruined the life of an innocent woman, a lie whose reverberations refuse to diminish. Bestseller. 2015.
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In 1976, nine men from the all-black community of Ruby, Oklahoma attack a former convent on the edge of town,…
which is the refuge of four female outcasts. Various tragedies that have struck the townspeople motivate the assault, which is intended to purge and protect the community. But it also reveals dark secrets leading back to the town's origins in the 1890's. Bestseller. Some descriptions of sex, some violence, and some strong language.
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Multi-cultural fiction
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Si ce roman semble centré sur le destin d'un jeune homme en mal d'adolescence, de son initiation amoureuse et sexuelle,…
de sa chasse aux lingots d'or abandonnés par son père, c'est avant tout l'opéra de l'esclavage, la résurrection des légendes africaines transmises de génération de génération. Quelques descriptions de nature sexuelle, quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 1985. Titre uniforme: Song of Solomon.
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Multi-cultural fiction
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The story of Violet and Joe Trace, married for over 20 years, residents of Harlem in 1926. When Joe shoots…
his 18-year-old lover, Violet disfigures the girl's body at her funeral. As Joe mourns, Violet becomes obsessed with the lovers' relationship. Past and present voices, like jazz, quietly sing the blues. Some strong language. Bestseller 1992.
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En 1926, le coeur d'Harlem est en pleine ébullition. Le Jazz Age incarne la liberté d'une nouvelle génération de Noirs…
américains et sème sur la ville un air de folie. Joe, en proie au délire, assassine sa jeune maîtresse devant sa femme. Dans un accès de rage, celle-ci se jette à son tour sur la défunte pour lui taillader le visage. Bouleversé par sa propre violence, le couple va chercher dans son passé les traces de son présent ravagé. Quelques passages où le langage est grossier. 1993. Titre uniforme: Jazz.
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Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction
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Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard…
said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry."Sula has the same power, the same beauty.At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes.Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour...at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it. Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance)...that a child drowned in the river years ago...that there was a plague of robins when she first returned...In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people, through forty years, up to the time of their bewildered realization that even more than they feared Sula, their pariah, they needed her.
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General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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A beautiful, arresting story about race and the relationships that shape us through life by the legendary Nobel Prize winner—…
for the first time in a beautifully produced stand-alone edition, with an introduction by Zadie Smith &“A puzzle of a story, then—a game.... When [Morrison] called Recitatif an &‘experiment&’ she meant it. The subject of the experiment is the reader.&” —Zadie Smith, award-winning, best-selling author of White Teeth In this 1983 short story—the only short story Morrison ever wrote—we meet Twyla and Roberta, who have known each other since they were eight years old and spent four months together as roommates in St. Bonaventure shelter. Inseparable then, they lose touch as they grow older, only later to find each other again at a diner, a grocery store, and again at a protest. Seemingly at opposite ends of every problem, and at each other's throats each time they meet, the two women still cannot deny the deep bond their shared experience has forged between them. Another work of genius by this masterly writer, Recitatif keeps Twyla's and Roberta's races ambiguous throughout the story. Morrison herself described Recitatif , a story which will keep readers thinking and discussing for years to come, as "an experiment in the removal of all racial codes from a narrative about two characters of different races for whom racial identity is crucial." We know that one is white and one is Black, but which is which? And who is right about the race of the woman the girls tormented at the orphanage? A remarkable look into what keeps us together and what keeps us apart, and how perceptions are made tangible by reality, Recitatif is a gift to readers in these changing times
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Bestsellers (Fiction), Historical fiction, General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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Colonial North America, 1680s. An Anglo-Dutch trader reluctantly accepts a young slave girl named Florens as payment for a bad…
debt. Her mother hopes the transaction will prove a mercy to Florens, but subsequent years in Jacob Vaark's household reveal the harsh reality of being under another's dominion. Some violence. Bestseller. 2008
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Bestsellers (Fiction), Family stories, General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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1941. Eleven-year-old Pecola Breedlove--poor, ugly, and black--desperately wants blue eyes, which she thinks would solve all her problems. But instead…
she is subjected to rejection, violence, and an unwanted pregnancy. Slowly, she begins to descend into madness. Strong language and some explicit descriptions of sex. Bestseller. 1970
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Historical fiction, Bestsellers (Fiction), General fiction, Multi-cultural fiction
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Related in kaleidoscopic fashion and set in rural Ohio during the period immediately following the Civil War, this chronicle of…
slavery and its aftermath traces the life of Sethe, a former slave. Sethe has a secret in her past so horrific that it has alienated the community, driven off her two sons, isolated her surviving daughter, and threatened her new, loving relationship with Paul D., also a former slave. Bestseller 1987. Some violence
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Multi-cultural fiction
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The story of Violet and Joe Trace, married for over 20 years, residents of Harlem in 1926. When Joe shoots…
his 18-year-old lover, Violet disfigures the girl's body at her funeral. As Joe mourns, Violet becomes obsessed with the lovers' relationship. Past and present voices, like jazz, quietly sing the blues. Some strong language.
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Romance, Serious and literary fiction, Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Classic fiction, Family stories, Mysteries and crime stories
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Son, a black fugitive, invades the West Indian home of a retired millionaire, upsetting the racially diverse household. He captivates…
pampered Jadine, a black fashion model. Their ideologically complicated love affair plays out from the Caribbean to Manhattan. 2004 foreword by the author. Strong language. 1981
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Multi-cultural fiction, Serious and literary fiction
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Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined…
novel, Toni Morrison tells the story of Nel Wright and Sula Peace, who meet as children in the small town of Medallion, Ohio. Their devotion is fierce enough to withstand bullies and the burden of a dreadful secret. It endures even after Nel has grown up to be a pillar of the black community and Sula has become a pariah. But their friendship ends in an unforgivable betrayal—or does it end? Terrifying, comic, ribald and tragic, Sula is a work that overflows with life.
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Pecola Breedlove, a young black girl, prays every day for beauty. Mocked by other children for the dark skin, curly…
hair, and brown eyes that set her apart, she yearns for normalcy, for the blond hair and blue eyes that she believes will allow her to finally fit in. Yet as her dream grows more fervent, her life slowly starts to disintegrate in the face of adversity and strife. A powerful examination of our obsession with beauty and conformity, Toni Morrison’s virtuosic first novel asks powerful questions about race, class, and gender with the subtlety and grace that have always characterized her writing. [This text is listed as an example that meets Common Core Standards in English language arts in grades 11-12 at http://www.corestandards.org.]
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Multi-cultural fiction, General fiction, Suspense and thrillers, Romance
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Heed y Christine, dos mujeres ya ancianas, han dedicado toda su vida a amar a un solo hombre y a…
odiarse de mil maneras distintas. Quien despertó en su día tanta rivalidad es Bill Cosey, el dueño de un hotel de la costa Este de Estados Unidos, que en los años cuarenta era el lugar. de encuentro de la gente de color con dinero y con ganas de divertirse. Bill murió hace años, dejando un reguero de recuerdos y un testamento confuso que obliga a las dos enemigas a convivir bajo el mismo techo en una mansión destartalada, donde alimentan su antigua rabia con gestos despechados y palabras amargas. Pero ¿quiénes son en realidad Heed y Christine? ¿Qué relación las une? Toni Morrison llevará al lector hasta el tiempo en que eran niñas y amigas inseparables, y le presentará a otras mujeres y hombres que conocieron a Bill, un fantasma que toma cuerpo gracias al amor que otros le entregaron en su día. "Amor es una excelente novela que combina magistralmente diálogo, introspección, denuncia social y lirismo." RAFAEL NARBONA, El Mundo "Amor es una novela de las que dejan huella. Dolorosa y bellísima escrita." JUANA SALABERT
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Toni Morrison's first novel, The Bluest Eye (1970), was acclaimed as the work of an important talent, written--as John Leonard…
said in The New York Times--in a prose "so precise, so faithful to speech and so charged with pain and wonder that the novel becomes poetry. " Sula has the same power, the same beauty. At its center--a friendship between two women, a friendship whose intensity first sustains, then injures. Sula and Nel--both black, both smart, both poor, raised in a small Ohio town--meet when they are twelve, wishbone thin and dreaming of princes. Through their girlhood years they share everything--perceptions, judgments, yearnings, secrets, even crime--until Sula gets out, out of the Bottom, the hilltop neighborhood where beneath the sporting life of the men hanging around the place in headrags and soft felt hats there hides a fierce resentment at failed crops, lost jobs, thieving insurance men, bug-ridden flour. . . at the invisible line that cannot be overstepped. Sula leaps it and roams the cities of America for ten years. Then she returns to the town, to her friend. But Nel is a wife now, settled with her man and her three children. She belongs. She accommodates to the Bottom, where you avoid the hand of God by getting in it, by staying upright, helping out at church suppers, asking after folks--where you deal with evil by surviving it. Not Sula. As willing to feel pain as to give pain, she can never accommodate. Nel can't understand her any more, and the others never did. Sula scares them. Mention her now, and they recall that she put her grandma in an old folks' home (the old lady who let a train take her leg for the insurance). . . that a child drowned in the river years ago. . . that there was a plague of robins when she first returned. . . In clear, dark, resonant language, Toni Morrison brilliantly evokes not only a bond between two lives, but the harsh, loveless, ultimately mad world in which that bond is destroyed, the world of the Bottom and its people, through forty years, up to the time of their bewildered realization that even more than they feared Sula, their pariah, they needed her.